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GIS Specialist

SWCA Environmental Consultants

About the opportunitySWCA Environmental Consultants has an opportunity for a GIS Specialist to support the our Phoenix, AZ office. This position will support our natural and cultural resources programs. In addition, this position may include collaboration and support from other SWCA GIS groups.

It is SWCA's goal to bring on dynamic individuals who are following their passion in delivering the highest-quality project work to provide sound science and creative solutions.

What you will accomplish

Support GIS workload with the team to ensure that productivity goals are met and that projects are delivered on time and on budget

Maintain a collaborative work environment between project managers and GIS specialists

Help ensure over qualify of work is consistent with SWCA's standards and practices alongside other GIS team members

Act as a technical and analytical lead within the GIS group for providing GIS solutions

Use ESRI ArcGIS Desktop for editing data, analysis and making maps, including the use of geoprocessing tools , symbolizing features, importing/exporting a wide range of data and file types, and producing report quality and field maps in a reasonable amount of time

Data management and support for a variety of handheld GPS units using ArcGIS Mobile, Trimble GPS Analyst/Positions/GPSCorrect, and ArcPad

Prior work in natural or cultural resources management, remote sensing, and/or water resources, and prior experience working with federal land agencies such as the USFS, NPS, BLM, BOR, USGS, or other, is very desirable

Demonstrated experience with GPS technology, field data collection techniques, data integration to a GIS, and troubleshooting of equipment and digital files.

Ability to produce presentations, and/or written protocol of methods for reports or within metadata to replicate GIS-related analyses or modeling techniques applied on projects is strongly preferred.

SWCA Environmental Consultants is a growing employee-owned firm, providing a full spectrum of environmental services. With offices across the United States, SWCA is one of the largest environmental compliance firms and ranks among Engineering News-Record’s Top 200 Environmental Firms.

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EOE - women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply.

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